Jim Larkin, Syndicalism and the 1913 Dublin Lockout. By John Newsinger (International Socialism, Issue 25, Autumn 1984, p.3–36; online at Marxists Internet Archive). “Larkin’s great strength was his ability to articulate, indeed shout out his members’ bitterness and anger, their hopes and longings.”

Jim Larkin comes to the United States (Arguments for a Workers’ Republic). Extract from Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, The Rebel Girl (International Publishers, 1979). “He was a magnificent orator and an agitator without equal.”

The Catholic Communist (Arguments for a Workers’ Republic). Chapter from Bertram D. Wolfe, Strange Communists I Have Known (George, Allen & Unwin, 1966). “An Irish Nationalist to the core of his being, he was at the same time a revolutionary socialist and internationalist [and] a devout Catholic, a true son of his Church …”

Lest we forget: Jim Larkin, Irish Labor leader. By James T. Farrell (New International, Vol.13, No.3, March 1947; online at Marxists Internet Archive). “… he was one of the outstanding leaders of the Irish working class in the early years of this century.”

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Indian independence: a revolution lost. By Jamal Singh (In Defense of Marxism, 14 September 2017). “In this article we summarise British rule in India and examine the main and most influential political characters, which eventually led to India being broken up …”

India and Pakistan: Traumatic partition and the elusive independence. By Lal Khan (In Defence of Marxism, 14 August 2015). “This independence came about in the midst of a traumatic partition of the Subcontinent into two truncated states, Pakistan and India, accompanied by a communal holocaust. A frenzy of madness and a ferocious campaign of murder were unleashed on a religious and ethnic basis.”

Britain and India: dividing to rule. By Anindya Bhattacharyya (Socialist Worker [UK], Issue 2063, 11 August 2007). “The policies of independence leaders and their colonial masters led to the tragic division of India following the end of British rule.”

The great partition. By Barry Pavier (Socialist Review, Issue 317, September 2007). Review of Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (Yale University Press, 2007, 250 p.). “This is probably the best book going on the partition of the British Indian Empire.”

How Britain lost India (Socialist Worker [UK], Issue 1939, 19 February 2005). “Simon Basketter looks at the fight for Indian independence.”

India: imperialism, partition and resistance. By Sam Ashman (International Socialism, Issue 77, Winter 1997, p.81-102). “The end of the empire in India was a massive blow to British imperialism. Yet as Britain withdrew, it divided the subcontinent between India and the supposedly ‘Muslim’ state of Pakistan. The convulsions of partition saw Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs slaughter one another on an unprecedented scale.”

The transfer of power: real or formal? By Suniti Kumar Ghosh (Aspects of India’s Economy, No. 43, July 2007). “It is held as an axiomatic truth that India became an independent, sovereign state from 15 August 1947 when the British imperialists transferred power to Indian hands. Do facts bear out what is generally supposed to be true?”

The partition of India and the Indian bourgeoisie (Workers’ Liberty, 23 August 2017). “This article from 1947, by Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) Trotskyist Colin De Silva, discusses the stance on partition by the main bourgeois political groups in India — the Congress Party and the Muslim League.”

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India’s two hegemonies. By Achin Vanaik (New Left Review, Issue 112, July-August 2018). “How to grasp what’s new in the rule of right-wing strongmen like India’s Narendra Modi? Systematic comparison of the predominance of today’s BJP with that of the Congress Party under Nehru and his descendants.”

Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India. By Gideon Polya (Countercurrents, September 8, 2017). Review article of Shashi Tharoor’s book (Hurst & Company, 2017, 288 p.). “Inglorious Empire is an important and timely book that sets out the 2-century atrocity that was British subjugation of India.”

India yesterday: development and revolution (1) + India today (2) +The struggle for India’s future (3). By Paul Le Blanc (Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal, November 2015). “… we will touch on the dynamics of how history ‘works’, the strategic dynamics of revolutionary struggle, and the impact of capitalism in both advancing and thwarting liberation struggles – all of which have implications going far beyond Indian specifics …”

The myths of Indian nationalism. By Nagesh Rao (International Socialist Review, Issue 94, Fall 2014). Review of Perry Anderson, The Indian Ideology (Verso, 2013, 192 p.). “… this is a provocative book that deftly cuts through the mythologies of Indian nationalism.”

India and Pakistan: Trapped in the duplicitous history of the two ruling classes. By Lal Khan (In Defence of Marxism, 17 June 2014). “The roots of this reactionary political character of the rulers of the subcontinent lie in the historical and socio-economic evolution that this region has gone through in the last two centuries.”

Note towards a Marxist perception of Indian history (pdf). By Irfan Habib (The Marxist, Vol.26, No.4, October–December 2010, p.37-48). “[The article is] concerned with the major findings of Marxist work done on Indian history so far, as well as with the problems that are being debated.”

India after the elections: a rough guide. By Chris Harman (International Socialism, Issue 103, Summer 2004). “The BJP and the RSS will be licking their wounds in the months ahead. But does this mean that Congress will resume its once dominant political role, that India will enter a new era of political stability, and that the RSS and its front organisations are banished forever as a threat?”